MONASH UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART & Ten cubed
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Going PUblic and
private
Photo: Gleneagles Secondary
College students,
Ten Cubed 2015
Ground Floor, Building F
Monash University, Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia
www.monash.edu.au/muma
Telephone +61 3 9905 4217
muma@monash.edu
Tues – Fri 10am – 5pm; Sat 12 – 5pm
Ten Cubed
Telephone +61 3 9822 0833
1489 Malvern Road, Glen Iris 3146 VIC
Tues – Sat 10am – 4pm
MONASH UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART & Ten cubed
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INTRODUCTION: GOING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
During gallery visits to both a Public University Art Museum (MUMA) and Private Collection (Ten Cubed) students meet arts professionals
and compare how these two types of organisations manage their collections and develop exhibitions. Participants examine methods used
to display and promote contemporary art and see the storerooms at both galleries to find out how artworks are cared for behind-thescenes.
CURRICULUM LINKS
Going Public and Private is for students and teachers of VCE Studio Arts, Unit 4 Area of Study 3, Art Industry Contexts. Students are
required to visit at least two different exhibition spaces as part of their studies. This program encompasses two gallery visits in a single
excursion.
BOOKINGS
Going Public and Private tours operate Tuesday-Thursday throughout the school year by appointment. Programs are free and bookings are
essential. The program can be offered as a walking tour or schools may opt to use their own transport.
Contact: melissa.bedford@monash.edu
ABOUT THIS RESOURCE
This resource has been developed as curriculum support material for teachers and students.
It includes information about:
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The characteristics of a Public University Art Museum (MUMA) and Private Collection (Ten Cubed)
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Staff roles
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Gallery architecture and lighting
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Conservation and preservation
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Marketing and promotions
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Collections and commissioning
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Loans and outreach
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Approaches to exhibition design and the curatorial process
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Audience engagement, education and public programming
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Similarities and differences between MUMA and Ten Cubed
MONASH UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART & Ten cubed
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monash university museum of art (MUMA)
TEN CUBED
type of organisation
type of organisation
Public University Art Museum
Private Collection
characteristics
characteristics
The Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) began as the
Monash University Gallery in 1975 at the Clayton Campus and
moved to the more central campus of Caulfield in 2010.
Ten Cubed was established in 2010 as a ten year project to
acquire and support the work of ten outstanding contemporary
artists in depth. In 2013 the gallery was opened to exhibit the
collection. Ten Cubed is a philanthropic, not for profit organisation
funded by the Gringlas family.
As a key public art museum within Australia’s largest tertiary
institution, MUMA contributes to the cultural and intellectual life of
the university and wider community.
MUMA presents up to five exhibitions at the museum each year,
and regularly partners with other arts organisations to curate and
tour exhibitions nationally and internationally. In addition MUMA
presents the Boiler Room Lectures, a series of public talks by
international and local artists, curators and thinkers.
In addition to running a series of artist curated solo exhibitions, the
gallery also houses over 180 works from the collection in purposedesigned storage and viewing rooms.
In 2015 Ten Cubed’s mission was extended to collect an
additional ten artists.
Entry is Free
MUMA administers the Monash University Collection which
includes over 2,300 works of art and is valued at over $26 million.
MUMA is the main advisor and commisioner for public art on
campus, instigated by the University to add cultural value and
intrigue to Monash University campuses.
Entry is Free
STAFF ROLES
STAFF ROLES
MUMA currently employs ten staff.
•Director
Ten Cubed was founded by Executive Director Dianne Gringlas
and her sister-in-law Ada Moshinsky who is Ten Cubed’s
‘conceptual architect'. Ten Cubed currently employs two staff
members.
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Senior Curator
Staff Roles
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Curator - Exhibitions
•Manager
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Curator - Collection
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Research Curator / Front of House
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Program Administrator
As Ten Cubed is a small organisation with only 2 staff members
there is considerable overlap in staff roles and responsibilities.
Staff Roles
Assistant Manager
Contractors are employed casually to install exhibitions. A
professional designer undertakes work to support staff with
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Education, Public Programs and Audience Development promotions and the website.
Officers
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Communications Co-ordinator
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Museum officer
Casual staff and contractors are employed to install exhibitions
and support staff with after-hours events when required. A
team of volunteers and interns assist with front of house, events,
invigilation and research.
left: Monash University Museum of Art
Photo: Trevor Mein
right: Ten Cubed, street view
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gallery space
gallery space
An award winning design by Kerstin Thompson Architects,
MUMA’s premises encompass a suite of gallery spaces, including
the Helen Macpherson Smith Education Space and the external
Ian Potter Sculpture Court.
Ten Cubed gallery space is an architecturally designed renovated
terrace shop front on Malvern Road in Glen Iris. The building has
been transformed into a state of the art atrium gallery space that
is two storeys high. On the top level there is a mezzanine office/
lounge area and a collection storage facility.
gallery lighting
Installed is an advanced Erco exhibition lighting system on
suspended tracks that allow for computer controlled individual lux
adjustment of lights. Positioning and filters are altered manually and
accessed using a scissor lift.
conservation and storage
gallery lighting
The gallery has purpose built storage and viewing racks so most of
the collection can be kept onsite. If not at the gallery, works in the
collection are on loan or, as Ten Cubed is a private collection, at the
home of the Executive Director.
MUMA uses an advanced Erco exhibition lighting system that
allows for computer controlled lux adjustment of individual lights.
Ten Cubed staff take standard precautions when handling the
works including wearing white cotton gloves.
conservation and storage
Visual checks are conducted to ensure works remain undamaged.
When not being exhibited works are properly wrapped or hung on
the racks or on the wall of the storage room.
MUMA employs museum-standard environmental conditions,
storage and handling procedures to prevent damage to the
Collection and artworks on exhibition.
When artworks are not on display they are held in an off-site
climate-controlled facility. Temperature and humidity are regulated
and maintained at 20 – 22 degrees celsius and 40 – 45 percent
humidity.
The storeroom is temperature controlled however as Ten Cubed
is a new building there is no need for humidity or pest control at
this stage. These precautions may have to be considered as the
building ages.
Each gallery within the Museum has an integrated climate control
system which is monitored by staff and external contractors.
Experienced art handlers who install MUMA's exhibitions wear
white cotton or nitrile gloves when handling artworks.
All artworks on inward or outward loan are condition checked
when they arrive and before they depart.
Where restoration is required specialist conservators are engaged
to treat artworks on a case-by-case basis.
MARKETING AND PROMOTION
The Communications Coordinator develops marketing and
promotion stategies in consultation with the Curatorial team for
each exhibition, and the Education and Public Programs team for
audience development programs.
The museum's website is constantly updated to reflect current
exhbitions and programs and acts as an archive for previous
exhibitions, events and publications.
MARKETING AND PROMOTION
Ten Cubed has a website featuring up to date information about
artists, exhibitions and events.
Social media pages including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are
updated regularly.
Social media pages including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
are also updated regularly.
Ten Cubed also advertises exhibitions in printed media and listings
such as Art Guide and Art Almanac.
MUMA advertises exhibitions in print with national publications
such as Broadsheet and UnMagazine, and through other
mediums such as ACMI's film screening program Cinematheque.
Press releases are prepared and sent to journalists and arts writers.
MUMA actively publishes catalogues for each exhibition and
invites external experts, curators and other artists to contribute to
each catalogue.
Promotional cards for each exhibition are produced and printed by
Alter Design Studio.
left: Linda Marrinon: Figure Sculpture
2005 - 2015
installation view, MUMA 2015
photo: Christian Cupporo
right: Ten Cubed onsite storage facility
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COLLECTION POLICY
COLLECTION POLICY
New artworks are acquired for the Monash University Collection
annually using a collections policy as a framework for selection.
MUMA's curators frequent local and national exhibitions and
artist studios reseaching new and emerging tendancies in
contemporary Australian art. A selection of artworks is proposed
to MUMA's advisory committee (MUMAC) who discuss and
approve new acquisitions before they officially become part of
the Collection. Some artists and collectors gift artwork to the
Collection through the Australian Governments Cultrual Gifts
Program.
Ten Cubed's concept was to collect ten outstanding artists in
depth over ten years. All acquisitions are at the discretion of Dianne
Gringlas and Ada Moshinsky. Ten Cubed’s selected artworks come
from emerging, mid-career and established artists represented by
commercial galleries.
COLLECTION
The Monash University Collection is a leading representation of
contemporary Australian art from the 1960s to the present. It
includes a diverse range of media from painting, sculpture and
photography to video and installation art. Over forty-percent of
the collection is on public display throughout Monash University’s
Victorian campuses.
The Collection encompasses more than 2,300 works, which chart
a period of dynamic change from late modernism to pop, minimal,
conceptual and performance art.
In 2015 Ada and Dianne announced their commitment to expand
the Ten Cubed project and collect an additional ten artists.
COLLECTION
The ten artists chosen for the collection to date are:
Alasdair McLuckie, Daniel von Sturmer, Tim Silver, Pat Brassington,
David Rosetzky, Jonathan Delafield Cook, Anne-Marie May, David
Wadelton, Noel McKenna and Alexander Knox.
The first international artist selected for the collection is Liu
Zhuoquan.
Each chosen artist’s work is collected in depth. At least ten works
from each artist are acquired for the collection.
On show in the storeroom are a wide range of works from
additional artists.
The Collection continues to represent new artistic tendencies
as they develop with a sustained commitment to the support of
innovation and excellence in contemporary Australian art.
Loans policy, Outreach & offsite projects
Loans policy, Outreach & offsite projects
Artworks from the Monash University Collection are regularly lent
to museums and galleries nationally and internationally.
Ten Cubed encourages the loan of individual works in the
collection or complete exhibitions particularly to public galleries and
organisations.
Recent loans from the Collection include Howard Arkley Family
home – suburban exterior 1993, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
2015; Louise Weaver Much Deeping (column with growth) 2011,
Jeonbuk Museum of Art, South Korea 2015; and three works
by Aleksander Danko, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia,
Sydney and the Heide Museum of Art, Bulleen Victoria, 2015.
Recent loans from the collection include two of Tim Silver’s works
to McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery for his 2015-16 solo
exhibition and Anne-Marie May’s thermally folded acrylic sculpture
Untitled 2013 was featured in Glen Eira City Council Gallery’s 2014
Pattern exhibition.
MUMA regualary presents and co-presents offsite exhibitions,
recent projects include; Concrete Istanbul, Turkey as part the
Australian Government's Festival of Turkey 2015; Art as a Verb
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide & Artspace, Sydney
2015; So Long as You Move Ark Galerie, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2014 and Simon Starling: In Speculum City Gallery, Wellington
2014.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions for Ten Cubed artists are scheduled and enabled
by Ten Cubed Staff. Ten Cubed has held a group show of works
curated from the collection to mark five years of collecting.
Exhibitions
MUMA presents a program of changing exhibitions focusing on
contemporary Australian and international art since the 1960s.
Exhibitions range from surveys of significant artists to thematic
group exhibitions and research-based projects.
Alasdair McLuckie installation view 2013
Ten Cubed
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Curatorial process
Curatorial process
Exhibitions are conceptualised and developed by the Director
Ten Cubed presents solo exhibitions curated by the artists
and curators. Exhibiting artists may be invited to exhibit existing
themselves. Artists choose from their work within the collection and
artwork or can be commissioned to make new work for exhibition. may supplement work they feel is appropriate to the exhibition.
Planning is integral to the curatorial process and can begin two
years prior to each exhibition. Curators consider the gallery space
as a total environment and may alter existing gallery architecture
as part of the exhibition design. For instance walls may be built or
painted or carpet might be installed to create new environments
and experiences.
Artists are asked to respond to the Ten Cubed gallery space when
curating their exhibitions.
Commissioning
Commissioning
Monash’s public art policy aims to enhance the University’s
campuses and stimulate greater cultural participation and debate
through permanent and temporary displays of public and urban
art that is lively, provocative and engaging.
Ten Cubed does not commission artworks however ‘site specific’
works have been created by Ten Cubed artists for particular
exhibitions.
Recent commissions include James Angus Unbuild 2015; Agatha
Gothe-Snape TSWABFFDP 2015; Ronnie van Hout Dayton 2014;
Sanné Mestrom’s Weeping Women 2014 and Emily Floyd This
place will always be open 2012.
If the artist is unable to curate the exhibition the manager will take
on the role of curator but will need final approval from the artist.
For example, Anne-Marie May created a work in anticipation of her
Ten Cubed exhibition specifically for the space.
Tim Silver caste a clay work to display in the window of his 2013
Ten Cubed exhibition.
Alasdair McLuckie painted the front window wall of the gallery to
frame and display his collage works for Ten Cubed’s 2015 group
show.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
MUMA’s Education Program operates throughout the academic
year and is targeted to school and tertiary groups. The program
offers artist-led workshops, exhibition floortalks, behind-thescenes tours, pop-up exhibitions, professional development and
outreach.
Ten Cubed is committed to providing free education programs as
part of its mission. Ten Cubed offers tours of current exhibition and
of the wider collection stored at the gallery.
Going Public and Private tours for VCE Studio Arts are delivered in
association with Ten Cubed.
Going Public and Private tours for VCE Studio Arts are delivered in
association with MUMA.
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
MUMA’s Public Program includes gallery floortalks, artist-led
workshops, seminars and symposia with visiting artists and
academics. MUMA's Boiler Room lecture series presents lectures
by visiting artists, curators and thinkers in central CBD locations.
Ten Cubed holds artists talks and tours, morning teas, collector’s
tours, book launches, meetings for public organisations, fundraisers
and other community events.
MUMA also delivers a suite of programs in association with
festivals such as the Glen Eira Storytelling Festival, Melbourne
Festival and the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival.
All programs are free with the aim of share the collection with as
many people as possible.
left: Justene Williams The curtain
breathed deeply 2015, installation view
MUMA and Sanne Mestrom Weeping
Women 2014 IPSC commission
right: So Far... 2015
Ten Cubed
MONASH UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART & Ten cubed
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Public University Art Museum
Acquisition decisions made by MUMA Committee
Mid-sized organisation of ten staff in specialised roles
Aim to have a significant percentage of the collection on display
MUMA
Exhibitions curated by MUMA staff in
collaboration with artists where possible
Group and solo exhibitions
Free entry
Multiple exhibition spaces
Open to the public
Encourages loan of collection
Free education programs
Mission to have the collection
viewed as much as possible
One exhibition space
Privately owned building
Private Collection
Primarily solo exhibitions
Acquisitions decisions made by two founding members
Small organisation, staff take on multiple roles
Artist curated exhibitions
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Learning Activities and Revision for the Classroom
1.
Describe the characteristics of MUMA and Ten Cubed as Public and Private galleries
2.
Outline the roles of staff at MUMA and at Ten Cubed.
3.
What are some of the key features of the gallery architecture at Ten Cubed and MUMA?
4.
Select an artwork from MUMA’s collection and another from Ten Cubed’s collection. Describe the methods that might be used to store and handle these artworks. Discuss some of the considerations for the exhibition and display of these artworks.
5.
Many electronic and digital technologies become obsolete over time. As a class research and discuss some options for future-proofing video art.
6.
Find some examples of marketing and promotions strategies for Ten Cubed and MUMA. Analyse how effective those strategies might be.
7.
Compare and contrast the curatorial process at MUMA and Ten Cubed.
8.
Describe and discuss the current exhibitions at both galleries.